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At the same time, DeKnight says there are certain misconceptions of the time full stop that come up over and over from fans. Here are five of the biggest ones according to the series maker.
1. Cursing goes way back. “I sent my historical consultants a without a doubt about cursing, ‘What curses did they use?’ They sent me back a hysterical e-post that ran through all the curses that they used. They were all exactly the same that we use now,” he says. “The only leftovers, I’ll get a little graphic…the only difference is, their worst burden word, the worst thing that you could call someone was ‘clit,’ which didn’t unreservedly translate for us, because we think it would have invoked more of a giggle. But, all the cursing was pretty much the same. To this day, I still get people business me out on the Internet about the anachronistic cursing on the show. It’s like no, that was real. A lot of it is taken from graffiti that was written on the walls.
Source: Hollywood Reporter